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I finally got this Part to work, but it was a struggle.


After using the Structural Member function to create both ends I tried every way I could think of to Loft between them. I admittedly go months without needing to do a Loft, but I think I tried every possible setting and kept getting this error.


I finally created a Surface Loft (and I use Surfaces much less than solid Lofts) and thickened it, which worked, but it seems like there should be a better way. Any ideas?

This is similar to your previous question on the old forum, for a symmetric version:

https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... NiraOD2n3A

The error message was different, but it might be worthwhile to match up the segment count between the ends and see what happens.

JSculley wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 11:17 am This is similar to your previous question on the old forum, for a symmetric version:

https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexp ... NiraOD2n3A

The error message was different, but it might be worthwhile to match up the segment count between the ends and see what happens.

Thanks Jim,

I thought I remembered a similar issue, but wasn't sure I had posted it before, and in any case I haven't spent a week on the other forum learning to do a search so I probably wouldn't have been able to find it anyway.

I pulled up that file (which I still use), and I did add a sketch with enough end points to make the same number of segments as the larger end, but I seem to remember someone (I think it was @matt ) saying the necessity of having an equal number of segments wasn't that important, but maybe I was wrong.

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 10:23 am I finally created a Surface Loft (and I use Surfaces much less than solid Lofts) and thickened it, which worked, but it seems like there should be a better way. Any ideas?

I made everything with surface: Both profiles with Extrude Surface, then connected them with Boundary Surface (or Loft Surface - Loft is better if you want to add more profiles to guide the changes in the surface).

Or maybe you want to do with features and keep structural members. It is possible to do with Boundary Feature: Select the faces and apply tangency.

And with Loft Feature:

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 10:23 am I finally got this Part to work, but it was a struggle.


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After using the Structural Member function to create both ends I tried every way I could think of to Loft between them. I admittedly go months without needing to do a Loft, but I think I tried every possible setting and kept getting this error.


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I finally created a Surface Loft (and I use Surfaces much less than solid Lofts) and thickened it, which worked, but it seems like there should be a better way. Any ideas?

Completely off topic but I love when people post things like this. I found myself looking at guard rails back and forth from work and looking for this piece

MJuric wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:12 am Completely off topic but I love when people post things like this. I found myself looking at guard rails back and forth from work and looking for this piece

That piece is typically used off the end of bridge or overpass concrete parapets. Thrie-beam guardrail (usually two pieces nested one inside the other) is attached to the parapet, and that piece is then used to transition to standard W-beam guardrail.

Without that transition mean nasty things would happen if someone hit the relatively flexible W-beam near the concrete, which is of course rigid.

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:19 am That piece is typically used off the end of bridge or overpass concrete parapets.

Not surprisingly that's where the ones I say where